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Somnology (SLEEP) Part 1 with W. Chris Winter

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Sleep Paralysis

Sleep is a mechanism in our brain. But then vigilance or wakefulness, is too. So it's really two switches. As the sleep switch gets turned on, and we start to accumulate chemicals like a denosene that is feeding back to make, to make the other swits. We are a lot sleepier at 11 p m, than maybe at 11 a m. Sleep paralysis is the wake and the sleep switch being turned on at the same time.

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